Earth Justice on Scott Pruitt

President Trump’s nomination of Scott Pruitt, a climate-change denier and bedfellow of polluter lobbyists, to head the Environmental Protection Agency is an attack on the right of all Americans to safe, breathable air and drinkable clean water.

The EPA is responsible for upholding national air quality standards and regulating discharges of pollutants into bodies of water to protect people and the environment. Pruitt has filed numerous lawsuits attacking commensense safeguards that reduce industrial pollution from the fossil fuel industry, and has even been part of a coordinated national corporate campaign to undo the federal pollution protections that are supposed to keep our air and water clean.